Car vs. Motorbike

[EZAS]

If som1 wanted to learn how to drive they shouldnt be taught when there 16-18. As this is the time your brain starts to shrink (honestly it does start at this age). If children are taught to drive, and are shown horrific "scar'd for life" shots of what happens if your careless, im sure the country would be better off having 8 year olds at intersections than either, illiterate taxi drivers that couldnt read the part stating "RED = STOP", or old men, who sit at give way signs after you've shaken the fist and held the horn down for 2 mins.

As for symonds/nelson, Another shocker is Upper Queen Street and Newton Road .. I work on this corner and have seen motorcyclist killed already. We usually get ATLEAST one major accident a week, but atleast 1 or 2 minor dings a day. Its only the danger that makes it so fun

[Motu]

Come down to my roundabout at Carr rd - we can have 4 prangs before morning break,there's a big pile of glass and plastic out there right now.Only seen one bike prang there,and that was just a Harley on a diesel spill so it doesn't count.

[Krayy]

It still makes me wonder about the relative noob status of the bike and whether he had started riding only a few months back. Now at 41 you would think he would be a reasonably cautious (unlike yours truly, but I have a few years left - well, less than 5 anyway - to get there) and have a modicum of road sense.

That being said, I remember when I got the VTR after a long hiatus (15 odd years) and I did experience a little tunnel vision while I was relearning and getting used to the controls and find the limits of the gears.

Now, however, I'm used to the bike, so all of the changing gears, signalling etc is all automatic which allows me to be more actively visual and take in more of my surroundings while looking for danger areas. I was very reticent to do any kind of filtering during that transition phase, and even now I only do it at low speeds when there is a decent sized gap and the traffic is (almost) stationary - Northwestern Motorway anyone?

If and when I get a new bike, I think it'll be a case of finding a quiet area and just going through gears, learn their limits and get to a point where riding is automatic before filtering on it.

P.S. With such an oddball name it took about 30 seconds to find out his wife's name, email and phone (theres only 1 entry in the Whitepages too). Does the KB community have anyone who makes contact with crash victims to show our support at all? (and no, I'm not volunteering if there isn't)

[jrandom]

I was very reticent to do any kind of filtering during that transition phase, and even now I only do it at low speeds when there is a decent sized gap and the traffic is (almost) stationary - Northwestern Motorway anyone?

That would have been you I said hello to at the Nelson St turnoff a few mornings back, then. Thought you were probably a KBer but couldn't remember who had a yellow VTR. You're filtering OK. You'll probably end up going a bit faster than you do now, but then again, why bother... you'll just get to work earlier...

Does the KB community have anyone who makes contact with crash victims to show our support at all?

Nup. If we wanted to do that, we'd have to get crash victim details from the cops, and they wouldn't give us those details unless the people involved in each instance were happy to, and the whole thing would be a non-starter unless we were a proper legal entity of some sort with qualified counsellors, etc... fuggeddabootit.

[Krayy]

That would have been you I said hello to at the Nelson St turnoff a few mornings back, then. Thought you were probably a KBer but couldn't remember who had a yellow VTR. You're filtering OK. You'll probably end up going a bit faster than you do now, but then again, why bother... you'll just get to work earlier...

I was thinking the same thing. Damn lights change too quick to have a good conversation though.